Longfellow's in Korea at the beginning of the fifteenth century, and even earlier; indeed, one book so printed appeared to date from the years 1317 and 1324. And even if it were after all not so old as it seemed to be, there were others dating unquestionably anterior to the date of invention of printing by movable type in Europe. The invention reached Japan from Korea, and there was a distinct mention of Korean types produced by casting and moulding about 1420 A.D." The celebration of the seventy-fifth birthday birthday. of Mr. Longfellow (February 27th, 1882) is the subject of a note on the 18th of March: "We are happy to learn that the day found Mr. Longfellow in fairly good health, although he was not able to leave his house. In several public schools poems of his were read or recited in honour of the day." "A sumptuous volume" from St. Petersburg is also noticed in the same number"one of the publications of the Obshchestvo Lyubitelei Drevnei Pis'mennosti, or Society of the Lovers of Old Literature, in which is contained the bibliography of Russian hagiology. Sources of Its title is 'Istochniki Russkoi Agiografii,' or Hagiography.'' Sources of Russian Hagiography,' and it has Russian been compiled from a great number of records, manuscript and printed, and evidently with great care, by Mr. Nikolai Barsukof. It does not profess to give the lives of the holy persons whose names it contains, but it mentions when they died, where their relics are held most in honour, what days are set apart for their honour, and, above all, what records have preserved their memories. At the end of the work is a list of Russian saints and other holy persons, arranged according to the cities in which their remains repose. It contains about five hundred names. Of these only fifteen belong to women, and out of those fifteen Russian female saints. only two were not princesses. The two exceptions are SS. Glyceria and Juliana. The others were mostly 'great princesses,' what we should call grand duchesses. Feminine holiness seems to have been to some degree confined to the house of Rurik." List of Russian saints. Muir. The death of Dr. John Muir, the founder Dr. John of the chair of Sanskrit in the University of Edinburgh, is also noticed on March 18th. "He was one of the few who could venture with success to publish in India, and submit to the eyes of pandits at Benares poems in the Sanskrit language written with faultless accuracy. At the same time he familiarized English readers with Sanskrit poetry and Hindu thought by his elegant metrical versions. In another work in five volumes, ' Original Sanskrit Texts Servian charter in the British Museum. Mrs. Fawcett's 'Political Economy.' Prof. Ko Hun on the Origin and History of the People of India, their Religions and Institutions,' he opened out a new field of inquiry, showing how valuable that literature is to those who can justly appreciate it." Apropos of the impending coronation of Milan I., King of Servia, a note is made on the 25th of March "that the British Museum possesses an original charter in the Servian language, dated A.D. 1395, to which is appended, by strands of red and white silk, a wax impression of the great seal of Stephen Dabisha, King of Servia and Bosnia, which resembles in general characteristics of design the great seal of Richard II. of England." It is stated in the same number that " Mrs. Fawcett's Political Economy for Beginners' is being translated into two of the native languages of India, Canarese and Marathi. Her Tales in Political Economy' is also being translated intc the latter language and into Swedish." The death of Prof. Ko Hun Hua, of Harvard University, is also mentioned on the 25th of March. University. "He had formed a class for the study of Chinese, and was much beloved by all. The services at his funeral in the University Chapel are described as having been very impressive. The body, which will be taken to China, was enclosed in a leaden casket, on which was laid a man darin's cap. Following it came the eldest son of the deceased, Poh Fue Ko, accompanied by President Eliot. The youth was clothed in white. Several Chinese officials were present, and also the professors of the university. The services were conducted by Prof. C. C. Everett, who read selections from the works of Confucius and from the New Testament." fogs. Reference is also made to Mr. Newth's experiments, at the meeting of the Physical Society on the 11th of March, illustrative of the forma- Formation of tion of fogs. "The fact that burning sulphur, and even platinum wire rendered incandescent by an electric current, gave off solid particles in sufficient quantity to produce a fog, leads to the inference that even with gas stoves fogs will not be got rid of, though they may be of a lighter colour than those caused by coal fires." Full tribute is paid to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "the most popular of Englishspeaking poets," on the 1st of April. "He was the son of the Hon. Stephen Longfellow, an eminent lawyer and member of Congress, and was born at Portland, Maine, on the 27th of February, 1807. The father's family had emigrated from England to America in the seventeenth century. On the mother's side also the poet came of a fine old stock, that of John Alden, the first of the Pilgrim Fathers to land Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Visits Europe. at Plymouth, New England, from the Mayflower. Henry was destined for the law, and, having graduated in 1825 at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, he entered his father's office. But the law was neither his inclination nor his vocation. He soon aspired to a literary career, and the newly established chair of Modern Languages in his own college, Bowdoin, became the object of his wishes. He received this appointment in 1829, after making a tour of three years in Europe— France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Holland, and England. In 1835, on the resignation of George Ticknor, he passed from Bowdoin College to the chair of Modern Languages and Belles-Lettres in Harvard University. Another European tour, chiefly in the north of the Continent, had preceded this removal, and Longfellow became well versed in the Scandinavian tongues. He retained this professorship up to 1854, when he resigned in favour of Mr. Lowell, and did not afterwards hold any scholastic or official position, but continued to be an independent votary of literature, chiefly poetical. The Craigie House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, which had been the headquarters of Washington after the battle of Bunker's Hill, was for a great number of years the home of Longfellow. He was twice married, his first union lasting from 1831 to 1835, and his second from 1843 to 1861. |